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Committee gives do-pass recommendation to study farm safety insurance discount program
Summary
The Senate Agriculture and Veterans Affairs Committee recommended Senate Bill 2157 for passage after hearing testimony urging a legislative study into creating a farm safety insurance discount program aimed at reducing on‑farm injuries and fatalities.
The Senate Agriculture and Veterans Affairs Committee voted to recommend Senate Bill 2157 for passage after witnesses urged the Legislature to study whether a farm safety program could support insurance premium discounts for safer operations.
Senator Scribe, who introduced the bill, told the committee the idea grew from conversations with local farmers and from an alarming number of recent farm accidents. "The number is quite staggering," he said, listing tractor mishaps, grain bin entrapments, well falls, baler and equipment entanglements, and chemical inhalations. He urged a legislative study to identify durable, measurable safety training that could justify an insurance discount.
The bill would create a legislative…
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